President Barack Obama aims to use his historic visit in Cuba to further his bid to restore ties after a half-century of acrimony. Though his trip will be one of the mos...
Process expected to be fast-tracked
BRUSSELS — Salah Abdeslam, the top suspect in last year's deadly Paris attacks, was discharged Saturday from a Brussels hospital along...
Wind may have caused nosedive
MOSCOW — A Dubai airliner with 62 people on board nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball early Saturday while trying to land in strong w...
ISTANBUL — A suicide attacker detonated a bomb on a main shopping street Saturday in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people, the city’s governor said.
Twenty other people...
CAIRO — Scans of King Tut’s burial chamber have revealed two hidden rooms, Egypt’s antiquities minister said today — a discovery that could intensify speculation that th...
Information goes back to 1655
BOSTON — Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, genealogical research website Ancestry.com is making 10 million Catholic parish records from Ir...
Island politics not an easy fix
HAVANA — Dozens of uniformed and plainclothes police watch silently every Sunday morning as white-clad dissidents file into Mass at Santa ...
More than 18,000 died
RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan — Japanese gathered in Tokyo and along the country’s ravaged northeast coast to observe a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m. today,...
Man 'speechless' after bitter defeat
SEOUL, South Korea — The human Go champion said he was left “speechless” after his second straight loss to Google’s Go-playing machin...
LONDON — George Martin, the Beatles' urbane producer who quietly guided the band's swift, historic transformation from rowdy club act to musical and cultural revolutiona...
